[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 15]
[House]
[Pages 19888-19889]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 THE SITUATION IN IRAQ IS GETTING WORSE

  (Mr. EMANUEL asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. EMANUEL. Mr. Speaker, today the Washington Post quotes a former 
CIA official who said, ``People at the CIA are mad at the policy in 
Iraq because it's a disaster . . . The best we can hope for is a failed 
state hobbling along.'' But this view is widely shared

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in every branch of government. The State Department official warning to 
travelers from September 17, ``Iraq . . . remains very dangerous.''
  An army officer recently back from Iraq said, ``It is getting worse . 
. . They have infiltrators conducting attacks in the Green Zone. That 
was not the case a year ago.'' A National Intelligence Estimate from 
July said that among the three possible scenarios for Iraq, the best 
case was merely ``tenuous stability.'' A study by Kroll Security 
International shows that the number of daily attacks has increased from 
40 per day to around 70 each day. On Meet the Press, General Abizaid 
said, ``We will fight our way through the elections.'' ``Through,'' not 
up to the elections.
  And this weekend, Secretary of State Colin Powell said, ``Yes,'' Iraq 
is ``getting worse.'' It is getting worse, but we do not know it from 
the President's comments who says and sees Iraq as a success.
  The President of the proud of the fact that he does not read the 
newspapers. Can somebody please arrange a briefing for the President?

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